Cornell Multiverse Reckoning

When Young & Cumberworth’s multiverse audits re-run hot-button studies, results dispersion forces transparency about analytic degrees of freedom and could set a de facto robustness standard for policy-relevant social science. — If courts, agencies, and journals start expecting multiverse robustness for studies invoked in culture-war policymaking, the evidentiary bar—and which findings can credibly anchor laws—will shift.